Passover 4 questions in Mandarin with Pinyin
meir
April 09, 2014, 04:59 AM posted in I Have a QuestionHi everyone,
An unusual question. I was wondering if anyone has come across or seen a link to the traditional Passover 4 questions in Mandarin with Pinyin. I have been looking for a number of years but always strike out in my search. I recently purchased the book 300 Ways to ask the 4 questions and it does have the questions as characters but instead of using pinyin it uses a loose transliteration style instead (oh, sad day!!! ). My newbie skills aren't good enough to break all the characters down into the correct pinyin. I tried a new cool app called Waygo that translates characters into pinyin but it keeps giving different answers and there is no way to isolate characters, it tries to do it a half line at a time.
Anyone know of any resource that has the pinyin as well as the characters?
bababardwan
April 09, 2014, 04:53 AMThis site has the pinyin for the introductory question:
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/faq/four-questions.html
...which it gives as:
Chinese: Wei Shenmer Zher gar Yewan yu: chi: ta yewan bu: tong?
...but I think the pinyin is slightly erroneous. I would render it as:
Weishenme zhege yewan yu qita yewan butong
..in Characters that is:
为什么这个夜晚与其他夜晚不同？
bababardwan
April 09, 2014, 04:58 AMok, found this for you:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%AF%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E8%AE%A9
...I can pinyinise them if you want
bababardwan
Introductory question:
是什么让这个夜晚的所有[其他]夜有什么不同？
Shì shénme ràng zhège yèwǎn de suǒyǒu [qítā] yè yǒu shé me bùtóng?
bababardwan
1. 在所有晚我们吃酵饼或无酵饼，和在这个夜晚只有无酵饼
Zài suǒyǒu wǎn wǒmen chī jiào bǐng huò wú jiào bǐng, hé zài zhège yèwǎn zhǐyǒu wú jiào bǐng
bababardwan
2. 在所有晚，我们吃任何种类的蔬菜并在此夜苦菜！
Zài suǒyǒu wǎn, wǒmen chī rènhé zhǒnglèi de shūcài bìng zài cǐ yè kǔ cài!
bababardwan
3. 对所有的夜晚，我们一次也不用浸在这个夜晚，我们这样做两次！
Duì suǒyǒu de yèwǎn, wǒmen yīcì yě bùyòng jìn zài zhège yèwǎn, wǒmen zhèyàng zuò liǎng cì!
bababardwan
4. 对所有的夜晚，我们吃坐在直立或卧，并在这个夜晚我们都躺！
Duì suǒyǒu de yèwǎn, wǒmen chī zuò zài zhílì huò wò, bìng zài zhège yèwǎn wǒmen dōu tǎng!
bababardwan
April 09, 2014, 05:19 AMmeir mate, I hope that helps. If you need help with translation, or want to post a picture of the 4 questions in Chinese from your book, or need help with anything else, don't hesitate to ask. שָׁלוֹם
bababardwan
April 09, 2014, 10:23 AMbtw, I'm interested to know if you live in China and if so where. How are you planning to spend Monday? Anyhow, 祝你和你的家人逾越节快乐 חַג כָשֵׁר וְשָׂמֵחַ
meir
May 21, 2014, 02:33 AMThanks so much Bababardwan. Sorry I missed your reply. I am not living in China (though I wish I was!). I will try to upload a picture of the page from the book and perhaps that will help. I saw yet another version and wound up using that since it had pinyin as well (the book one is just a loose transliteration).
meir
May 21, 2014, 03:17 AMand to answer your previous question, yes that is the book I was talking about.
meir
May 21, 2014, 03:24 AMI tried pasting in a scanned image of the page but it seems it is too large : (
bababardwan
April 09, 2014, 03:52 AMI'd be happy to try and help if you could post a picture of the characters.